Casey M. LaWare
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Age: 19
From: Redding, Calif.
Assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Irwin, Calif.
Incident: Army Pfc. Casey M. LaWare died April 9 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, of non-combat-related injuries sustained April 6 in Mahmudiyah, Iraq.
Died: April 09, 2005
Redding soldier dies in Iraq
Associated Press
REDDING, Calif. — As a child, Pfc. Casey M. LaWare didn’t like to hunt because he didn’t want to shoot anything.
But before he even graduated from high school, LaWare enlisted in the Army, where he was trained as a sharpshooter and shipped to Iraq.
LaWare, a 19-year-old from Redding, died Saturday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. LaWare was severely burned in a guard tower fire in Mahmudiyah, Iraq, three days earlier.
He sustained second- and third-degree burns over 60 percent of his body. An official cause of the fire has not been released by the military.
“The Army was what he wanted to do. He was really proud to be there,” Casey’s mother, Kathy Grace, told the Redding Record Searchlight.
LaWare’s family was originally told that his injuries were not life threatening before receiving the bad...
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